Jun 29
Health Insurance For Pre-existing Conditions Available Starting …
Jay Angoff, the Director of the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight of Health and Human Services, discusses the start of the Pre-existing Condition Health Insurance Plan for patients who have pre-existing conditions … read more…
The Arizona Health Insurance Cost Containment System …
This is a department that is supposed to provide interested and aptly qualified individuals with relevant information that focus on health insurance and a lot of other variant information in regard to the factor of insurance. … read more…
Health Insurance Fraud: What You Should Know
According to the Insurance Information Institute, health providers and facilities such as doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, diagnostic labs and attorneys routinely attempt to defraud the health insurance system…with devastating results … read more…
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The Top 10 Frequent Flyer Travel Tips
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Whenever any disease grips even a part of the world, it takes the wind out of travel plans and makes everyone feel helpless. Such an undesirable prospect can be c
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Feb 20
The court’s unanimous decision in Hertz Corp. vs. Melinda Friend et al. will make it easier for class action parties that are citizens of different states to move the action to federal court from state court, legal experts say. The Class Action Fairness Act, which was backed by businesses that held they could get a fairer hearing in federal rather than state court if they were not resident of a state, allows such a move under most circumstances.
The case involves a group of Hertz Corp. employees based in California. They sued Park Ridge, N.J.-based Hertz in California state court, alleging violations of state employment law. Hertz held that because it is based in New Jersey, the matter should be heard in a federal court.
A district court held that the case should be heard in state court because Hertz’s business activity “substantially predominates in one state”—California. Hertz appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed the lower court’s decision.
However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a company’s “nerve center,” where company officers “direct, control and coordinate” the company’s activities, should be the principal place of business. Typically, that would be the company’s headquarters, the high court said. But if a court finds that a company’s alleged “nerve center” is nothing more than a mailbox or an empty office, the courts should determine the location its actual principal place of business.
The Supreme Court rem
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Feb 16
The subpoena was issued as part of an investigation by the House Oversight Committee into Toyota’s response to complaints of uncontrolled engine acceleration that led to a global recall of 8.5 million vehicles, Kurt Bardella, a committee staff spokesman, told Reuters.
Dimitrios Biller, who headed a corporate legal team that defended Toyota in rollover-accident lawsuits, took some 6,000 internal documents with him when he left Toyota in 2007, and has since sued the automaker under U.S. racketeering laws.
He has said the documents support his allegations that the company systematically hid or destroyed legal evidence that would have led to costly trials in the United States.
The committee’s subpoena was accepted by Mr. Biller’s lawyer on behalf of his client, “and obviously they intend to comply,” Mr. Bardella said. The subpoena states that the documents must be turned over by 5 p.m. Feb. 23, the day before the oversight panel is scheduled to hold a hearing on the Toyota recalls.
“The committee is conducting a comprehensive, fact-based investigation with the intent of collecting and analyzing as much relevant information as possible,” committee chairman Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., and the panel’s top-ranking Republican, Rep.
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Feb 14
Mr. Gantz, currently senior vp at Ironshore Risk Agency in St. Louis, is responsible for setting underwriting guidelines and strategies, as well as for new product lines in the specialty casualty unit nationwide. He is based in Ironshore’s New York office and also oversees Ironshore’s London casualty platform.
Prior to joining Hamilton, Bermuda-based Ironshore, Mr. Gantz was senior vp for Landmark Insurance Co., where he was responsible for building a new casualty practice for the commercial agribusiness sector for the unit of American International Group Inc. He served as chief underwriting officer of Allied World Assurance Co. Ltd. prior to joining Landmark.
Ironshore also named Dutch Phillips, currently with Ironshore Risk Agency as assistant vp of casualty underwriting, to the expanded role of vp of U.S. specialty casualty. Mr. Phillips will be responsible for Ironshore’s nationwide wholesale casualty operation based in St. Louis.
Prior to joining Ironshore, Mr. Phillips was with AIG’s excess casualty unit as a regional manager.
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